<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">On 8 February 2012 13:40, ken brockman <</span><a ymailto="mailto:krush1954@yahoo.com" href="mailto:krush1954@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span class="" id="lw_1328709461_0">krush1954@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">> wrote:</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; ">> Hello all:</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">> I have a general and very basic question if I may. I am in the process</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">> of attempting to write my first python app. I wanted to collect information</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">> and save it to lists and </span><span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1328709461_1" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(54, 99, 136);
border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">dictionaries</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">. My question is, is it possible to</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">> save said lists and dictionaries in the program proper, or do i need to save</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">> the information to files on the hard drive.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Python</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">objects very easily with Python standard functionality, referred to in</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Python terms as "pickling". See the "pickle" module for more</span><br style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">information: </span><a href="http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 71, 134); outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span class="" id="lw_1328709461_2">http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html</span></a><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Thank you Walter for
your help and speedy reply.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div><div><font color="#454545" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Using pickling I have somehow managed to save two separate lists, but the dictionary is giving me much more of a struggle.</span></span></font></div><div><font color="#454545" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size: 12px;">I will reference the link you were gracious enough to provide me. Hopefully a few pots of coffee and my last few remaining brain cells will get me through it.</span></span></font></div><div><font color="#454545" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Thanks again...</span></span></font></div><div><font color="#454545"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;">PS the last few times i had attempted reading the docs on the python site, well, I might as well have been reading a book in ancient Sanskrit.</span></span></span></font></div><div><font color="#454545" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;">But if at first you don't succeed,try, try, try, again.</span></span></span></span></font></div><div><font color="#454545" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Have a great day. </span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></span></div></div></body></html>